Refuse to Wear the Veil -> Get Shot

Fox News reports that a Pakistani minister and woman’s activist was shot dead Tuesday by an Islamic extremist for refusing to wear the veil.

Zilla Huma Usman, the minister for social welfare in Punjab province and an ally of President Pervez Musharraf, was killed as she was about to deliver a speech to dozens of party activists, by a “fanatic”, who believed that she was dressed inappropriately and that women should not be involved in politics, officials said.

According to the gunman, Mohammad Sarwar, he said “I have no regrets. I just obeyed Allah’s commandment,” he said, adding that Islam did not allow women to hold positions of leadership. “I will kill all those women who do not follow the right path, if I am freed again.”

Perhaps if we put him in a prison cell filled with pictures of ladies wearing bikinis, he would die of extreme fright!

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